REALITY RIVAL CBB winner threatens to knock out ‘cocky and arrogant’ Mark Wright after run-in at the BAFTAs
CELEBRITY Big Brother winner Paddy Doherty has threatened to knock out “cocky and arrogant” Mark Wright after a run-in at the BAFTAs.
The 67-year-old former bare knuckle boxer admitted he wants to fight the former TOWIE star in a celebrity boxing match.
Paddy is even confident that he would be able to knock him out in the first round if they were to go head to head in the ring.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, he expressed: “I would love to fight Calum Best.
“And I’d love to fight the fella out of Essex, he’s really cocky and arrogant. Mark Wright.
“I would love to fight Mark Wright, he’s a cocky arrogant, above himself, I’d love me and him in the ring.
“I’m a lot older than him but I guarantee I’d knock him out in the first round.”
The Big Fat Gypsy Wedding icon went on to reveal that they had a run-in at the BAFTAs back in 2011 at the height of popularity of both of their shows.
Paddy’s show was up against The Only Way Is Essex in the YouTube Audience Award category but the TOWIE cast clinched the win.
The reality star divulged: “I met him at the awards, at the Baftas.
“He wasn’t rude to me I wouldn’t let him be, not in a million years, but he had that look, like look at me. You get it on, I’ll do it!
“And Calum Best I worked with him.”
Paddy worked with Calum on the RTÉ reality television series Celebrity Bainisteoir in 2012.
They competed against each other as opposing celebrity team managers on the show.
Their friendship led to them working together on an independent film and short project which released in 2012.
Mark was the resident lothario back in his early TOWIE days and was a part of the original cast when the show first hit our television screens in 2010.
He quit the hit show following the conclusion of the third series in 2011.
Paddy also shot to fame in 2010 as part of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings before winning Celebrity Big Brother in 2011.
In 2012, he released his autobiography, titled Hard Knocks & Soft Spots, which detailed his life as an Irish Traveller and bare-knuckle boxer as well as his rise to fame.
He told The Sun that the book is now being turned into a film and an actor has been cast to play him.
Paddy revealed: “It is yeah, it’s happening now. I’m not allowed to say, but it’s going through it now. Yes I am involved.
“A geezer has been cast as me, he’s a good actor, but I’ve not met him yet. I can’t say who it is. And I forget things fast!”
